Chapter 5: Making Friends and Losing Pals After my experience on my previous excursion in the Middle East, I had little expectation, other than to look forward to basic facilities and a sparse existence,

Chapter 4: Cool Guys and Numpties For an expat with children, returning home is always looked forward to, but never more so than at Christmas and so it was, at the end of my first full year away.

Chapter 3: Down, Dirty and Sidewinders My pre-teenage time was dominated almost exclusively by all things football or occasionally exploring around my home locality.

Chapter 2: Medieval Castles to Medieval Conditions The events of the day and reaction from my own management left me a bit deflated. Intimidation and veiled threats towards my family, followed by a lack of company support, made a serious…

Chapter 1: A Cakewalk In retrospect, I suppose I always had that little nagging voice in the back of my head, urging me to peek over the horizon to find out what wonders were to be seen on the other…

Even many of the world’s largest corporate businesses and governmental structures have been thrown off-kilter by the uncertainty and have been forced to review, revise and re-strategize, sometimes even on a daily basis, in an attempt to manage and coordinate…